WEBVTT - Let’s Talk Politics: 90+ days 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:01.680 I'm Tamika D Mallory and this. 0:00:01.680 --> 0:00:03.199 Shit Boy my Son in general. 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:05.360 We are your host of t M I. 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:10.280 Tamika and my Son's Information, Truth, Motivation and inspiration name 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:11.280 New Energy. 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:16.000 What's up, my son, Lennon. 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:17.840 How are you doing, Tamika. 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:21.319 I'm doing good, doing good, doing good. 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:26.480 Another weeks been a It was a long week, pretty eventful. 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:29.680 At the end of the week, we all at Until 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:35.760 Freedom celebrated the union, the recommitment of Reverend Stephen A. 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:38.480 Green and Miss Brayer Green. 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:40.360 Green. 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:45.239 Such a cool story that over four years ago when 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:52.440 we moved to Kentucky to fight for Breonna Taylor, Stephen 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:56.760 was really responsible for helping us bring people into the movement, 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:00.640 for going out and finding, you know, the those people 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:05.840 who were gems in the city of Louisville, but weren't necessarily, 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:07.920 you know, folks that we would just walk up on 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:10.040 the street, because there were people who you could just 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:13.480 walk up to on the street and they were automatically activated. 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:17.960 But Brea and some other young people were doing a 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:23.040 great job of organizing and you know, holding activities and 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:27.200 really just being out there fighting for Brionna, protesting and 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:31.480 also educating the community and of course, in true Stephen 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:36.640 Green fashion, he found the group, the organization that she 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:40.640 was with, and you know, brought them to meet with us, 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:44.240 and out of that came love. The two of them, 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:48.480 you know, started dating shortly afterwards, and then next thing, 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:51.559 you know, we looked up and they were married. And 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:57.320 this was one year later where they have recommitted and 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.360 held a big ceremony that all of us were able 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:03.640 to attend. And then of course the parties. We you know, 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:06.360 nobody they party like we party. We know how to party. 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.880 So it was really a fabulous occasion. It's so good 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:14.200 to know that, you know, out of unfortunately the death 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:18.120 of Breonna Taylor, came a few really really good things. 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:21.359 And it's funny because I've had that conversation with U 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.400 Tamika Palmer, Brianna's mother in the past that you know, 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.120 one day she and I were just we have been 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:31.160 having us wine and we were just talking and she 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:34.800 was crying and just going through her emotions, which you know, 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:39.320 unfortunately happens often, and she said, you know, I said 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:42.280 to her, there have been some beautiful things to come 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.960 from even this tragic loss of your daughter, and she 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:47.360 was like, it has you know, those things. You know, 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.440 that's some of the stuff that she reflects on when 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:52.960 she gets sad. And so one of them is how 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:56.440 Brea and Steven met and out of that came love, 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:58.920 you know, the two of them fell in love and 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:03.160 now they're married. And so their celebration, their good party afterwards. 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:06.880 This weekend, this past weekend was really special. 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:11.560 It was a beautiful event. Shout out to Brea and Stephen. 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.800 You know, I just love their energy because they have 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:19.520 this youthfulness and they have this this professionalist that they balance. 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:24.040 You know. You know that Stephen is an awesome preacher 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:28.440 and and Breya is very intelligent and she does a 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:32.600 lot of work with a lot of women's groups that 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:35.240 she's I see her organize a lot of events. Is 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:37.440 that well, But when it's time to party, they party, 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.600 you know. So I just love the dynamic that they 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.080 have and you know, I'm wishing them the best. Like 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:49.040 you said, the parties were amazing. You know that the 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:52.480 parties were dope, and like you said, them coming out 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.520 of Brianna Taylor, Like every time I look at them 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:58.880 like wow this. You know, I remember Stephen coming to 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:02.320 our and be with Brea and then we were all 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.760 just sitting at a table organizing and the next thing, 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:09.160 you know, now this is his wife, you know, so 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:15.240 Breonna Taylor's fawned and evoked, you know a lot of 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:20.440 energy that you know, we we we want to we 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:23.960 want to be sad because we lost her, but we 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:28.720 have to acknowledge, you know, the things, even government officials 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:32.200 who've been elected, and just the way the energy in 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:35.839 Louisville shifted. They became a lot more unified and seeing 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:41.159 people just step into their their light to say so 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:42.680 shout out to them. 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:43.320 You know. 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:47.920 It was my son's birthday this past week, so the 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:52.799 festivities rolled on with him. Yesterday we played laser tag, 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.440 which was I've never done before. But they beat they 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:59.760 beat us like crazy. Him and his friends and his brother. 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:01.840 They they dig good at these games. You know, they 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:03.960 sit on the games all day. So I'm running around 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:05.920 and they just keep killing me, and I'm like, why 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:09.440 can't I shoot nobody? You know, getting thirteen and fourteen 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:13.120 kills and I'm getting one. So I'll never lift that down. 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:17.400 So happy birthday, thirteenth birthday. 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.480 That's awesome, awesome, happy birthday. 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.000 And then I guess the big one for me is 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:25.120 that I took my granddaughter to. 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:27.160 Her first day in school. 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:31.200 They you know, I call it daycare, but clearly this 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:32.799 is not daycare anymore. 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:34.679 This is actual school. 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:37.400 They have books, they've got to set up, but they 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:40.599 have they have to learn for certain points of the day. 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.800 When I was little, daycare was literally you go to 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:47.360 the babysitter. Maybe it was in a center, but for 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:50.080 the most part, it was that somebody's out. This stuff 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:53.560 is the technology homegirl just walked right up in there 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:55.560 like it's not a big deal, like what's up? 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:56.760 Where's everything at? 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:00.279 And they have cameras where they can roll back the 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:02.680 camera of any time of day. The cameras are in 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:06.520 every location. When I walked up, her parents were already 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:08.760 there with her. I walked up and they have a 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:10.720 cold that you have to put in at the door. 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.560 I mean, we literally did not have any of that 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:17.440 stuff in the daycare back in the days, right like, 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:18.960 we just didn't have it. 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:23.000 It just wasn't There wasn't no cameras and their kids 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:23.440 up to. 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:26.599 No cameras, definitely none. 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:30.839 Having you know, maybe they kept the door locked, but 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:33.760 you have a code that you punch in that is 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.960 it is customized for each person, so they know the 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:41.360 time of entry in and out for everybody that's associated 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:45.720 with a particular code. You've got one section that has 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:49.599 all the babies and the I don't know if they 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:52.279 call it an infirmary, that's not an infirmary. I don't know, 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:55.960 a nursery, yep, nursery for little teeny babies. They got 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:59.800 this class that this is very high level professional and 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.279 I think the thing that's funny is that the kids 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:05.240 were prepared, like to go and meet and talk all 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:09.240 day and get the instructions as soon as I got 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:14.880 there about three minutes after them, and the director was like, ah, 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:19.080 we got it, and don't leave a pacify it because 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:20.640 that's oldbas of today. 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:24.280 Whoa so. But she seemed like she's gonna do fine. 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.520 The only thing about Blair is that when you tell 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.440 her to do something, I don't know exactly how that's 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.200 gonna work out. So we have, you know, like I said, 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:37.400 the weekend and the beginning of this week is starting 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:39.320 out really good, but there's a lot of work to 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:44.960 be done. We're gonna be announcing more about our Project Freedom, 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:48.080 which will be rolling out all throughout the week, where 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:53.000 we will be presenting to the world sort of our concept. 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:54.800 For what we believe. 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:58.680 The counter project of Project twenty twenty five is that 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:03.880 is in favor of us as people who are black folks, 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:09.440 brown folks, and also marginalizing vulnerable communities. I want to 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:12.600 talk about something later on in terms of this idea 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:16.400 of like when you lift black people, what happens? But 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:20.360 I do you know, I do think or I think 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:22.480 it was important for us to take the work that 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:25.880 we've been doing with the people we've been working with who. 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:29.000 Are on specific issues, you know, for us. 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.600 One thing that the Women's March did teach me is 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:34.880 about intersectional. 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:35.960 Movement building, right. I didn't. 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:40.080 I was not familiar with that term in a movement space, 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:44.199 although of course we know what intersection means in the 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:49.600 concept of intersection. But learning about intersectionality and movement spaces 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:52.680 came during the time of the Women's March, and it 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:56.000 was really a lifesaver for me because I learned and 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:59.600 began to understand that even though one issue is my 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.560 issue and I'm super committed to it, it does not 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.880 mean that I can't make space for other people's issues, 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:09.200 And I think that helped me to expand the people 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:11.520 who are around me and the types of folks that 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.200 I work with and talk to every day. The beauty 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:17.440 of I said our Project Freedom a few moments ago, 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:21.320 but that's actually the website, our projectfreedom dot com. The 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:25.520 name of it, the platform is Project Freedom, Project Freedom, 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:30.040 and I think the beauty of Project Freedom is just that. 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:31.840 So many different groups. 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:35.520 We've got gun violence awareness and prevention folks who deal 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:40.599 with policy there. We've got people who actually do mobilizing 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:43.920 on the ground for a lot of issues, but specifically 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:47.520 getting people to the polls and dealing with voter suppression. 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:52.120 We've got folks that deal with anti war advocacy. We've 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:57.280 got people who of course support Palestinian rights and looking 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:01.320 at how to get a cease fire in gun immediately. 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:06.199 We've got policy folks that deal with education, had we have. 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:09.800 Folks that are in politics in general. So this is 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.920 a broad, broad, broad base of folks. 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:15.960 And now when we open this up, we're going to 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:20.079 be bringing in the voices of so many other individuals 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:24.080 who have their own expertise. And so if you have 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:26.800 the time, go to our Project Freedom dot com. That's 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:30.520 our projectfreedom dot com to learn more about how we 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:34.400 see America, not through the lens of Project twenty twenty five, 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:37.680 where we understand the dangers, but through the lens of 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:42.200 the people looking at legislation that's already lingering. It's already 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:47.000 out there. We've already committed that these policies need to 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:50.640 be passed, and we've sort of compiled them and brought 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:53.800 them back together, freshened them up, and said, this is 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:56.240 how we can strengthen them, and this is how we 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.600 can pass them to alleviate some of the suffering, but 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:03.640 also to help add and and generate more success and 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:10.200 power among our community. So Ourproject Freedom dot com. 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:12.479 We definitely need that man, because there's so much misinformation, 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:18.680 Like there's a misinformation campaign that you know it's online 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:21.320 that I constantly go to my page and I just 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:25.840 laugh now because I realize that I've seen Applies write 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:28.800 something on his page the other day that you know, 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:31.120 we ain't fool that all these ain't black people that 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:33.080 y'all got on here. These are some box that you'll 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:35.440 do to send here, and we know it, and I'm 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.920 just so I laugh at it now because it'd be 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:39.920 a I put a post up that they don't like 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:42.840 they send one hundred people at a time to try 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:46.200 to overload it with just lies and just stupidity. So 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:51.960 I'm really, I'm really being intentional about stopping the misinformation, 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:56.080 about educating and getting real information and getting the facts, 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.200 you know, and being able to fact check things. I 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.480 went to a meeting, you know, pretty much kind of 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:04.400 like a private meeting but not so private. But it 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:09.120 was just a black man, couple of Hispanics just in 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:12.920 the room about misinformation and about how do we stop 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:16.600 the misinformation in our community, how what is the truth? 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.839 And you know, and there was a lot of different views, 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:23.880 you know, definitely talking about this election and what it 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:27.760 means and what they what they think happened, and what 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:29.760 they think a person did or what they know a 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:32.200 person did, and why person should be with this person 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:35.200 or why a person isn't with that person. So it was, 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:38.200 it was, it was very helpful. It was a strong 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:40.680 dialogue with a lot of strong individuals. I know, shout 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:44.840 out to my brother James McMillan who invited me to 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:48.400 the meeting, but it was a lot of very well 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:51.920 known people in the community, you know, within the industry 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:55.680 of music industry, within just different industries. So you know, 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.720 I think that those are the conversations in the rooms 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:00.960 that we need to be having at this time because 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:04.760 the things that I read online, you know, the sound bite, 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:09.000 the clickbait, the just anything so you can get your 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:13.400 narrative pushed, it's just terrible, you know. And knowing that 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:16.360 a lot of people don't do the research, don't do 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:19.480 the work that it takes to actually get real information, 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:23.840 you realize that people are being misinformed every day and 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.600 they grabbing onto it. So I have conversations with people 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:28.080 and they come to me and ask me, so, what 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.760 about such and such and such and such did this, 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:32.880 And I'd be like, that's not actual facts, and then 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:35.800 I showed them there, well, but such such said this, 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.439 And then I showed them and they be like, oh, 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:41.080 I ain't even know. And it's like, damn, there's too 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:43.800 many of us that just don't know, you know. So 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:47.440 I really want to be disintentional about making sure that 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:51.880 real knowledge and real information and the true you know, 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:55.240 information that you can actual fact check and see is 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:56.720 out there. Yeah. 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:57.040 You know. 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:01.000 The thing about what you're saying is so important, that 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:04.480 is so important is it also helps us to brush 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:08.480 up on our skills making sure that we're constantly reading 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:13.000 and finding new information. Because as I have been listening 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:17.200 to Resi Colbert, who is an expert on a lot 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:21.480 of political things, but she specifically has followed Kamala Harris 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:25.520 for a while and compiled lots of facts, and she 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:29.440 is all she's all around the Internet and around the 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:35.560 country dispelling myths about Kamala Harris, Vice President Harris. You know, 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:37.520 as I've been listening to her, and then I've been 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.360 reading the things that you know, she's directing me to, 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:43.840 I find other things because you know, once you become 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:47.920 a reader, once you become someone that is interested in 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:53.520 knowledge and information, you automatically will continue to go forward 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:55.880 in what you're learning so that you can pick up 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.520 the next point, right, so that you can pick up 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:02.960 the nuance and the context for which something is buried. 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.520 So I was looking at a clip the other day, 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:08.960 and I know this individual. She's attacked me several times 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:13.080 on the internet, so you know, I know her. This 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:19.760 clip had pieces of words that Kamala Harris has said. 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:24.600 Right, words selling that they they cut different pieces, they 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:26.720 splice it and they put another thing and it just 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:28.200 narrative and they. 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:31.520 Run with that, right, and the sad part about it 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:35.040 is that this is a person who prides herself on 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:39.560 being realer than everybody else. She's the realist, Like you know, 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:43.200 nobody is more real than her. Everybody else is fake. 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:45.880 Not everybody, but there's a number of us that she 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:50.400 claims we're fake, and yet you're you're you're actually promoting 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:54.160 things that's not true and using little clips in order 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.520 to make a point about your position on someone. When 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:01.480 I feel like, if you do your actual research right, 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:05.720 you can find things about anyone, even a good person, 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:08.160 even the person that you love, even your grandmama and 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:11.040 your mama. If you do real research, you can actually 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:15.320 bring forth factual information that helps to prove your point 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:19.479 about why you don't trust or believe in a particular individual. 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:23.320 You don't have to make up lies in order to 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:25.200 make your point. And that was one of the reasons 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:28.440 why the whole Project twenty twenty five was sitting on me. 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.720 It wasn't so much how the dangers of it, because 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:35.240 we know that we understand. But what was really what 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:40.760 I was really sitting with was the idea that people 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:45.360 were trying to make it worse when it was already bad. 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.480 It didn't need, you know, Project twenty twenty five does 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:54.440 not need hyperbole. It does not need people to come 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:57.760 up with what is what they think is possible, or 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:01.760 what they think it means. Plus some it is very clear, 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:06.120 and it's very clear the mindset of the individuals who 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:09.600 developed it. And so I just think that to your point, 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:14.320 it forces us to as leaders be much more intentional 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:17.480 about the information that we're taking in. And it also 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:21.479 forces me to stop posting things and not have done that. 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:26.399 Definitely have done that, to stop posting things without really 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:28.440 knowing the full context of it as well. 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:29.640 And I'm not saying if I. 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:32.679 See a video of a man being killed or beaten 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:34.920 by the police or something like that, or a woman 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:38.040 or whomever, that I will not share that information and 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:40.960 call for us to learn more, to know more, and 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:43.840 more than likely I've already talked to somebody or I 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:48.800 kind of know the backstory, but the clips of people's words, 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:51.680 it has happened to me, you know, And so I'm 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:54.600 just really really careful about that. But I think you're 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:58.040 right that the misinformation piece is important. It's happening, and 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:00.840 I think our Project Freedom, I'm not sure that it's 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:05.240 so much deals with misinformation, which it does because it 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:09.280 really kind of dispels the myth that there are no plans. 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:11.480 That nobody has any And also. 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:15.200 Another thing that it dispels is this idea that Kamala 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:20.000 Harris does not support legislation that is driven towards helping 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:24.080 majority black folks, right like the gun violence intervention and 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:28.159 prevention work they you know, it started out with people 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:32.159 trying to lobby for mass shootings, which are generally not 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:37.600 They don't classify the shootings that happen in our community 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:42.639 as mass shootings. However, now right because of the work 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:45.119 that passed, the McBride and Erica Ford and a number 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:48.240 of other individuals have done that, it is being. 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:49.120 Classified that way. 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:53.919 And there's a complete set aside in the gun violence 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:57.600 prevention resources coming out of the federal government that is 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:04.760 for our communities, specifically targeting our communities where violence and 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:08.359 violent shootings happen the most. And so a lot of 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:12.840 the legislation that is in this our in the Project 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:17.479 Freedom Platform, it's things that the Vice President has already 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:20.240 signed on to some of it. She's a co sponsor 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:25.119 of other bills. She's been very supportive of reparations. People 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:28.879 say she doesn't support reparations. That's a lie, you know. 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:33.320 So now why it's necessary for us to bring this 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:36.240 what they say, bump it up in your inbox, is 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:39.280 because we need to make sure there's still a commitment 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:41.760 and we want to we want to push her on 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:45.199 her being able to say that I'm still committed to 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:48.840 these things that I had not sort of changed or 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:52.040 walked away from it because it's not politically expedient, and 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:55.440 that I'm committed to making much of what is in 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:59.560 these particular bills happen. At least I'm going to be 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:02.119 a big advocate for it. So there's a lot of 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:04.160 work to be done. I want folks to check out 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:06.600 our project freedom dot com and you can come to 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:10.040 TMI Underscore show and send us a note and let 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:12.359 us know where you see some things that need to 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:15.200 be strengthened. There may be something in your local community 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:17.240 that we don't even know about that we should be 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:19.840 and we should be informed so that we can look 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:21.639 at the best ways to make it a part of 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:30.960 the four pillars of the policy platform. So my thought 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:35.640 of the day, speaking of misinformation, I don't know if 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:37.760 this goes in the same bucket. But I will tell 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:40.800 you that I'm really like, Wow, the scammer thing is 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:44.080 like really crazy, right, you know, on the surface, when 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:47.520 people say that somebody is a scammer or someone or 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:50.760 people have been scamming, I'm not sure that it connects 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:54.800 with us, right. Like sometimes I feel like when people 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:58.240 say or talk about scammers, you kind of think about 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:01.760 just like some free money that's just sitting there that 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:06.200 folks are taking, or bags handbags or something, you know 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:12.800 like that. But there are real people behind these situations 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:16.440 and that are victims of this behavior. 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:19.160 And I was looking. 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:22.359 At a news article the other day where a man 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:28.360 says that hundreds of thousands of dollars were stolen and 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:31.760 he's a lawyer, and it was stolen from him because 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:34.359 he believed that he was a part of some operation 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:38.520 to catch scammers. So somebody scammed him into believing that 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:44.360 he was helping to catch other people, and as a lawyer, 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:48.960 still he did not know or wasn't paying attention, and 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:54.520 therefore his money was basically taken. Then you know, there 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:58.040 was another incident where a woman is saying that this 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:02.000 man that she was married to, he basically married her 0:22:02.080 --> 0:22:05.000 and was draining her bank account, took all of her 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:08.679 life savings and emptied her out and then you know, 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:11.920 that's it. He's off on to the next thing. And 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:15.199 I was it came to me as my thought of 0:22:15.280 --> 0:22:18.880 the day that we have to really look out for 0:22:19.040 --> 0:22:22.000 the elders and the people in our lives that we 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:25.639 know are not as informed, and they don't have to 0:22:25.720 --> 0:22:28.040 end because I don't see. I do know when you 0:22:28.119 --> 0:22:30.920 go on cash app or whatever it tells you scamming, 0:22:31.040 --> 0:22:32.880 is that as all time high. 0:22:33.040 --> 0:22:34.280 Don't do this, that and the third. 0:22:34.320 --> 0:22:36.360 But like my parents, they don't cash app, They don't 0:22:36.359 --> 0:22:39.800 do any of that because they know that they are 0:22:39.880 --> 0:22:42.720 unaware of, you know, certain things. 0:22:42.800 --> 0:22:43.520 They know that. 0:22:44.080 --> 0:22:48.400 However, my mom got a phone call from somebody one 0:22:48.480 --> 0:22:50.679 day who was telling her like, you know, we're trying 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:56.840 to check your your Social Security number because there's been fraud, 0:22:57.119 --> 0:23:00.119 and she's like given the person the information and it 0:23:00.160 --> 0:23:03.040 doesn't dawn on her for a while that wait a minute, 0:23:03.080 --> 0:23:07.560 I should not be having this conversation. So that just 0:23:07.640 --> 0:23:10.919 tells me that, you know, we're we're at a place 0:23:11.000 --> 0:23:15.000 where we have to do a lot of educating for ourselves. 0:23:15.400 --> 0:23:18.800 And if your family members, your parents or other people. 0:23:19.040 --> 0:23:23.040